In his vivid and thought-provoking filmmaking debut, physician Ryan McGarry gives us unprecedented access to America's busiest Emergency Department. Amidst real life-and-death situations, McGarry follows a dedicated team of charismatic, young doctors-in-training as they wrestle openly with both their ideals and with the realities of saving lives in a complex and overburdened system. Their training ground and source of inspiration is "C-Booth," Los Angeles County Hospital's legendary trauma bay, the birthplace of Emergency Medicine, where

LANGUAGE: English

RATING: NR

RUNNING TIME: 82 minutes

QUOTES: "A must-see for anyone concerned about the state of health care in this country. Which should be all of us." -Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

"Code Black... succeeds in its most important mission: taking us to ground zero of the health care mess."
-David Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle